Call for papers: International Conference „Living after the Fall(?): Past-Present in Southeastern Europe”, Sofia, June 12-13, 2014

As we approach the 25^th anniversary of the end of Communism in Eastern Europe, the era is simultaneously definitively over, and still among us.  Ensconced in nostalgia, limned by products, landscapes, and worldviews birthed by party planners, transformed by would-be communist subjects, and wrestled with afterwards, the specter of communism haunts us—for good and ill—through its understood ruins.  Creating ruins is both a historiographical project—an issue of how we periodize and understand the past—and a question of how we live through and among those artifacts of eras on the other side of perceived historical ruptures.  Southeastern Europe is replete with both: from Buzludzha to Perperikon, from Tsarevets to abandoned collective farms.  This conference asks panelists to address the question of ruins—to ask: “what makes the past, past,” and to tease out the implications of these understandings.

Apariție editorială: Heinz Linge, Cu Hitler până la sfârșit. Memoriile ordonanței lui Hitler

Pe 30 aprilie 1945, Heinz Linge a dat foc trupului neînsufleţit al lui Adolf Hitler, în grădina noii Cancelarii a Reichului, respectând astfel ultima dorinţă a dictatorului. Începând din 1939 a fost ordonanţa lui Hitler şi s-a aflat permanent lângă acesta, având ocazia să afle ca nimeni altul amănunte inedite despre viaţa publică şi privată a Führerului. Memoriile lui Heinz Linge sunt deosebit de importante pentru cei care doresc să înţeleagă cu adevărat atât epoca respectivă, cât şi modul de gândire şi de acţiune al lui Adolf Hitler.